Oct. 21st Sunday:
Registration 18:00-
Public lectures: First and Second Origin of Life 19.00-21.00
André Brack (Orleans, France) and
Tetsuya Yomo (Osaka, Japan)
Monday
Welcome
9.00-9.20
Session Chair: Harry Lehto
9.20-10.20
1. Astrobiology, Life and Habitabile zones
1.1 Updating the Astrobiology Roadmap
Carl Pilcher
1.2 Life, the Universe and Habitable Zones
Rami Rekola
1.3 The quest for terrestrial planets
Ewa Szuszkiewicz
Coffee
10.20-10.50
Session Chair: Werner von Bloh
10.50-12.10
2. Life, climate and the atmospheres
2.1. Biological feedbacks as cause and demise of Neoproterozoic
icehouse: implications for multicellular evolution
*P. Janhunen, H. Kaartokallio, I. Oksanen, K. Lehto, H. Lehto
2.2 Life and Climate: Is there a link?
Peter Ditlevsen
2.3 The importance of high CO2 amounts in young terrestrial
planetary atmospheres
*H. Lammer, M.L. Khodachenko, M. Panchenko, N. Terada,
Yu.N.Kulikov
2.4 The life span of a photosynthetic-active biosphere on
super-Earth planets
*C. Bounama, W. von Bloh, S. Franck
Lunch
12.10-14.00
Session Chair: Maria Webb
14.00-15.20
3. Mars research
3.1 Detection of anticipated life on Mars by Phoenix
*Joop M. Houtkooper, Dirk Schulze-Makuch
3.2 Methane and formaldehyde:their abundance and sources
on the Earth and Mars
*C. Muller and D. Moreau
3.3 Geological and Paleo-Climatic Constraints for
the Search of Life on Mars
*V.-P. Kostama, M. Aittola, J. Korteniemi, H. Lahtela,
T. Törmänen, T. Öhman and J. Raitala
3.4 Modelling the surface and subsurface Martian radiation
environment: Implications for Astrobiology
*L. R. Dartnell, L. Desorgher, J. M. Ward, A. J. Coates
Coffee
15.20-15.50
Session Chair: Frances Westall
15.50-17.10
4. Early life
4.1 The origin and evolution of viruses
D. Bamford
4.2 Horizontal gene transfer: evolution by default or product
of natural selection?
Anthony Poole
4.3 Membranes and the Origin of Cellular life
*Tiina Laiterä and Kirsi Lehto
4.4 Elaborate morphologies in probable microfossils from Archaean
chert,Pilbara Craton,
Western Australia: indicators of complex cell behaviour?
*K. Sugitani, K. Grey, T. Nagaoka, K. Mimura, M.R. Walter
Poster session
18.30-21.00
Tuesday
Session Chair: Axel Brandenburg
9.00-10.20
5. Prebiotic chemistry
5.1 Conformation-dependent racemization of aspartyl residues
in model peptides
*A. Brack, K. Kuge, N. Fujii
5.2 Driving chirality
H. Lehto
5.3 Emergence of chirality and molecular evolution
*Raphaël Plasson, Hugues Bersini, Axel Brandenburg
5.4 A Terrestrial Prebiotic Route to Pyrroles and
Higher Aromatics
*H. Strasdeit, S. Fox, D. Denysenko
Coffee
10.20-10.50
Session Chair: Jean-Francois Lambert
10.50-12.10
5.5 Oxidative Pathways of Reduced Phosphorus Compounds:
A Primary Source of Condensed Phosphates on the Early Earth
*M. A. Pasek, T. P. Kee, J. I. Lunine
5.6 Phosphorus Redox Chemistry in Planetary Environments:
Implications for the Origins of Life
D. E. Bryant, I. B. Gorrell, D. Greenfield, S. M. Evans,
L. Wang, D. E. Heard, M. A. Blitz, A. Goddard, C. Smith,
M. A. Pasek, *T. P. Kee
5.7 Abiotic organic synthesis underneath the ocean floor
Nils G. Holm
6. Small bodies in the solar system: Comets, Meteorites, Moons
6.1 Unbiased meteorite statistics: an impossible task? The Oman
experience
*Beda A. Hofmann, Edwin Gnos, Manuel Eggimann, Ali Al-Kathiri
Lunch
12.10-14.00
Session Chair: Yves Ellinger
14.00-15.20
6.2 Organics on Wild 2 Comet: Laboratory results of
stardust samples
J.R. Brucato and the Stardust Team
6.3 Composition of Saturnian E-ring Particles. Probing subsurface
Oceans of Enceladus?
*F. Postberg, S. Kempf, R. Srama, E. Grün, J.K. Hillier,
S.F. Green, N.McBride
6.4 Interplay of Novel Organic and Inorganic Chemistry on Titan
Sam Abbas
6.5 Photochemistry of organic molecules related to Mars, Titan,
Meteorites
and Comets:
Experiments in Terrestrial orbit and laboratory simulations
*Y.Y. Guan, H. Cottin, P. Coll, D. Coscia, N. Fray, F. Macari,
F. Stalport, F. Raulin, C. Szopa, D. Chaput, M. Viso, M. Bertrand,
A. Chabin, L. Thirkell, F. Westall and A. Brack
Coffee
15.20-15.40
EANA General assembly
15.40-16.30
Workshop Dinner and Sauna 16.30/18.45 - 23.00
For participants for the sauna, the departure will be
approx at 16.30
The dinner only people will leave at approx 18.45.
Return is scheduled for 23.00. Further details will
be given at the meeting.
Wednesday
Session Chair: Gerda Horneck
9.00-10.20
7. Life in extreme conditions
7.1 Microbial life in extreme subglacial Antarctic lake
environments: Lake Vostok
*S. Bulat, I. Alekhina, V. Lipenkov, V. Lukin, D. Marie,
C. Lavire, P. Normand, J.R. Petit
7.2 The Enigma of the Nitrate Deposits in the Atacama
Desert, Chile
*Rocco L. Mancinelli, Kimberley Warren-Rhodes, Amos
Banin, Ragnhild Landheim
7.3 UV-induced DNA damage in Deinococcus radiodurans:
Photoproducts and gene expression
*P. Rettberg, U. Pogoda de la Vega, T. Douki, J. Cadet,
G. Reitz
7.4 Growth of Microorganisms at Martian Subsurface
Conditions: Laboratory Modeling
*A. K. Pavlov, V. N. Shelegedin, M. A. Vdovina,
A. V. Tretyakov
Coffee
10.20-10.50
Session Chair: Kirsi Lehto
10.50-12.10
7.5 New insights into the microbial diversity in spacecraft
assembly clean rooms and the impact on planetary protection
*C. Moissl, Kasturi Venkateswaran, Gerhard Kminek
8. Lithopanspermia
8.1 Shock experiments in support of the Lithopanspermia
theory: The influence of host rock composition, temperature
and shock pressure on the survival rate of endolithic
and epilithic microorganisms
*C. Meyer, D. Stöffler, M. Misgaiski, J. Fritz, R. Moeller,
E. Rabbow, G. Horneck, J.-P. De Vera, C. Cockell, U. Hornemann
9. Education and Public Outreach
9.1 The Science and Culture of Astrobiology in Education
and Outreach
Mark Brake and Martin Griffiths
9.2 ABC-Net, a European Astrobiology Lecture Course Network
*Gerda Horneck and the ABC-Net Team
Formal Ending of the meeting
(Lunch)
12.10-13.45
Youth Session Chair: Liisa Gunnelius
13.45-15.05
Y Young astrobiologist sessions
Y.1 The origin of introns and mRNA
*Marc P. Hoeppner, Daniel C. Jeffares, Anthony M. Poole
Y.2 The importance of the Astrobiology for the young
generations
*José Ruiz de la Herrán
Y.3 Irradiation of a homogeneous mixture of ammonia and
carbon dioxide (NH3, CO2) at low temperatures
*Sohan Jheeta, Anne LaFosse, Bhalamurugan Sivaraman,
Slywia Ptasinska, Nigel Mason
Y.4 Dissociative recombination of nitrile ions -
important processes in Titan's atmosphere
Erik Vigren*, Magdalena Kaminska, Vitali Zhaunerchyk,
Mathias Hamberg, Mathias Danielsson, Richard D. Thomas,
Jacek Semaniak, Patrik Andersson, Mats Larsson,
Wolf D. Geppert
Coffee
15.05-15.30
Youth Session Chair: Mark Hoeppner
15.30-17.10
Y.5 Compound model to explain water origins for
Earth-like planets
*Karla de Souza Torres, Othon Cabo Winter
Y.6 Structure and evolution of RNA polymerases
Liisa Gunnelius
Y.7 Analysis of the critical moments of the evolution
of biosphere macroparameters for revealing catastrophes
*V.A.Ozheredov and N.G.Khorseva
Y.8 Searching for habitable-zone planets with SuperWASP
*D. R. Anderson and The SuperWASP Consortium
Y.9 How to close the door leaving it open? ? On the
origin of membrane transport system
Katarzyna Adamala
POSTERS
P1. Life
P1.1 What is life?
Anthony Mellersh and Sohan Jheeta
P1.2 Computer simulated macroevolution: beyond Bak-Sneppen and
Generalized Lotka-Voltera models
Wojciech Borkowski
P2. Life, climate and the atmospheres
P2.1 The habitability of super-Earths in Gliese 581
W. von Bloh, C. Bounama, M. Cuntz, S. Franck
P2.2 Simulating Terrestrial Effects of a Nearby Supernova
*Dimitra Atri, Adrian L. Melott, Yuriy Serozhkin,
P2.3 Conditions for lightning in gas-dusty atmosphere of
water-containing bodies of Solar system
Yuriy Serozhkin
P2.4 Evolution of Earth-size Planetary Atmospheres: From
Planets to Exoplanets
Kaijun Liu, Riku Järvinen, Ilkka Sillanpää, Walter Schmidt,
Esa Kallio, Pekka Janhunen
P2.5 Experimental simulation of volatile organic
contributions to planetary atmosphereserrestrial and
extraterrestrial conditions
R. C. Wilson, V.K.Pearson, D.C. Turner, G.H. Morgan,
I.A. Franchi, I.P.Wright, I. Gilmour.
P3. Mars
P3.1 Identification of ß-carotene in a Martian-analog
Evaporitic Matrix Using Raman Spectroscopy - A Methodical
Approach
P. Vítek, K. Osterrothová, J. Jehlicka
P3.2 A low wax crude oil could explain possible liquid
hydrocarbon seeps on Mars
M. S. Direito and M. E. Webb
P3.3 Raman LIBS Instrument for ExoMars 2013: calibration
and data refining procedures
N. Tarcea, T. Dörfer, M. Schmitt, M. Hilchenbach, H. Thiele,
H. Henkel, I. Rauschenbach, E. K. Jessberger, F. Rull,
R. Hochleitner, F. Langenhorst, *J. Popp
P3.4 The effect of short wavelength UV radiation on uracil
thin layer. An application of the "Mars lamp"
A. Bérces, G. Kovács, H. Lammer, Ch. Kolb, Gy. Rontó
P3.5 Studies of resistance to Mars UV conditions with
extremely halophilic archaea
*Sergiu Fendrihan and Helga Stan-Lotter
P3.6 Survivability and performance of cyanobacteria under
simulated Martian UV-radiation
*M. Tammi, F. O'Reilly, L. Mibelli, B. Osborne, J. Tammi
P3.7 NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Uncovering the Mysteries
of the Martian Arctic
NASA, *Line Drube, *Christina Østerkryger Von Holstein Rathlou
P4. Early Life
P4.1 Informational polymers in the primitive Earth: nonlinear
analysis of archaea genomes and eukaryotic exons compared
to computer-generated random sequences
Giorgio Bianciardi
P4.2 Viruses in the origin, evolution and panspermia of life
*Matti Jalasvuori and Jaana K. H. Bamford
P4.3 Is the case against ribose proven?
*Anthony R. Mellersh and Nigel J.Mason
P4.4 Shallow-water biolaminated sediments in a 3.33 Ga-old
chert from Barberton
*Frances Westall, Gisela Gerdes, and Axel Hofmann
P5. Prebiotic chemistry
P5.1 The fate of amino acids adsorbed on mineral matter
*J-F. Lambert, L. Stievano, I. Lopes
P5.2 Chemical Evolution: Amino Acids at Hot Volcanic Coasts
*S. Fox and H. Strasdeit
P5.3 Protein Subunits and the Search of Protein Precursors
Franco Ferrari
P5.4 How long can left and right handed life forms coexist?
Axel Brandenburg
P5.5 Quantum origin of life
Y.Toyozawa, *J.E. Dmochowski, M.Plaza
P5.6 Biforked state of a prebiotic microsystem: the intermediate
step to living unit
Vladimir N. Kompanichenko
P5.7 Absorption of compounds of biological importance in solid
surfaces and their relevance in terrestrial and extraterrestrial
conditions
*López-Esquivel Kranksith Laura, Negrón-Mendoza Alicia,
Ramos-Bernal Sergio
P5.8 Characteristics of fluctuating conditions in the
hydrothermal medium suitable for the origin of life
*Vladimir Kompanichenko , Polona Kralj, Boris Fishman,
Konstantin Shlufman, Efim Frisman
P6. Small bodies in the solar system: Comets, Metorites, Moon
P6.1 Thermal history of micrometeoroids during the atmospheric
entry
*G. Briani, S. Aiello, A. Belleni, L. Graziani
P6.2 Dissociative recombination studies of CH2OH+ and CD2OD+
*M Hamberg, W. D. Geppert, R. D. Thomas, V. Zhaunerchyk,
F. Österdahl, A. Ehlerding, M. Kaminska, J. Semaniak, M.
af Ugglas, A. Källberg, A. Paal, A. Simonsson and M. Larsson
P6.3 Application of a minimum energy principle to the amino
acids found in the carbonaceous chondrites
*Y. Ellinger, M. Lattelais, F. Pauzat, B. Zanda
P6.4 The limnological structure of Titan's hydrocarbon lakes
and its astrobiological implication
T. Tokano
P6.5 Nondestructive detection of biphosphammite and nickel-
boussingaultite -Two NH4 group containing minerals using
vibrational spectroscopy
Adam Culka
P6.6 Raman spectroscopic nondestructive detection of organic
minerals for exobiological studies
*J. Jehlicka, H.G.M. Edwards
P6.7 Investigations of Europa biosignatures with hypervelocity
impact physics
Katarina Miljkovic
P6.8 Stardust and StardustNext missions
Johan Silen
P6.9 Large icy satellites as possible sites for existence
of biosphere
Michael B. Simakov
P7. Life in extreme conditions
P7.1 Hydrocarbon rich extreme econiche established in the deepest
ice borehole at Vostok, East Antarctica
*I. Alekhina, D. Marie, J-R. Petit, V. Lukin, V. Zubkov, S. Bulat
P7.2 Activity of a sulphate reducing bacteria community isolated
from an acidic lake
*D.Wolicka, A.Borkowski
P7.3 Biosignatures in pillow lava alteration rims (Atlantic Ocean):
Implications for
biogenecity and their detection
B. Cavalazzi, *F. Westall, R. Barbieri
P7.4 Mycobacterium species in geothermal areas from Yellowstone
National Park
*Ricardo Santos, João Fernandes, Fernanda Oliveira and Manuela
Cadete
P7.5 Life in the Mud Volcanoes
Denzil A, Haque, S, Lehto, H.J., Ramsubhag A, Wilson, B
P7.6 Fungi in astrobiology
Tapani Yli-Mattila
P7.7 Growth and survival of coloured fungi in space
*Gomoiu Ioana, Piso Marius, Hasegan Dumitru,
Evangelia Sarantopoulou
P7.8 Effects of the ISS low Earth orbit related environment
on the transcriptome and proteome expression in the ESA Life
Support System bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum ATCC25903
*F. Mastroleo, N. Leys, R. Benotmane, F. Vanhavere,
A. Janssen, L. Hendrickx, M. Mergeay, R. Wattiez
P7.9 Astrobiological experiments on Foton-M3
R. Demets
P7.10 HALOSPACE - Testing the survival of Halococcus
dombrowskii in the ESA EXPOSE facility at the International
Space Station
*Tatjana K. Polacsek and Helga Stan-Lotter
P7.11 Habitats on the external parts of the International
Space station?
C. Muller
P7.12 Cleaning-resistant Cupriavidus and Ralstonia bacteria
contaminating spacecrafts and the ultra clean rooms they
are assembled in
*Natalie Leys, Annik Dams, Albert Bossus, Ann Provoost,
Kasthuri Venkateswaran and Max Mergeay
P7.13 An introduction to planetary protection
Euan Monaghan
P7.14 Raman spectroscopy study of extremophile organisms
and their relationship with minerals and rocks
* Susana E. Jorge Villar, B Howell G.M. Edwards106
P8. Lithopanspermia
P8.1 LITHOPANSPERMIA: test of interplanetary transfer and
re-entry process of epi- and endolithic microbial communities
in the FOTON-M3 Mission
*R. de la Torre, L. Gª Sancho, G. Horneck, Petra Rettberg,
C. Ascaso, A. de los Ríos, J. Wierzchos, M. Reina, J.P. de
Vera, C. Cockell, R. Demets
P8.2 High Speed Impact Experiment for Studying of Survivability
of Micro organisms under Low Temperature
A. K. Pavlov, V. N. Shelegedin, V. T. Kogan, B. G. Zhukov,
R. O. Kurakin, S.I. Rozov, *M. A. Vdovina, A. V. Tretyakov
P8.3 Estimation of possibilities of mass transfer from Mars
to Earth
M. Gorski, *S. Janikowski, M. Kubiak, G. Wiktorowicz
P8.4 Realisation of Panspermia phase 2 inside the Mini External
Exposure Facility on the International Space Station (ISS)
Cornelia Meyer, *Ulrike Pogoda de la Vega, Ralf Moeller,
Jean-Pierre de Vera, Thomas Berger, Guenther Reitz, Petra
Rettberg, Uwe Reimold, Rogier Schonenborg
P8.5 Formation of oligopeptides in frozen solution: possibility
of delivering seeds of life by small solar system bodies
N. Gontareva, E. Kuzicheva, A. Pavlov, M. Vdovina
P8.6 Plant seeds as biological instruments for dispersing life
through the Universe in directed panspermia
*David Tepfer, Andreja Zalar, Søren V. Hoffmann, Sydney Leach
P9. Public outreach and education
P9.1 SOWA - Polish National Astrobiology Student's Conference
K. Adamala, M. Gochna, *M. Gorski, I. Kowalska
P9.2 Teaching & the public outreach in the field of
astrobiology: Finland as an example
Marianna Ridderstad
P9.3 Perspectives on Astrobiology projects in Brazil
*E. Janot-Pacheco, C. Lage, H. Boechat-Roberty,
G. Porto-de-Mello, A. Wuensche, A. Friaça
P10. Beyond the solar system
P10.1 Laboratory set-up for studying ices at the 25-1000
microns region
*J. Canto,O. Gomis, R. Vilaplana, M. Domingo
P10.2 Molecular line carriers in the translucent clouds
*M. Kazmierczak, J. Krelowski, M. Schmidt
P10.3 New redox-catalysts found in interstellar dust by MS
Franz R. Krueger
P10.4 Investigations of Dusty Circumstellar Disks
*R. Nilsson, G. Olofsson
P10.5 Radiative Transfer in Protoplanetary Disk: effects on
physical and chemical properties of gas and presolar dust
L. Graziani, *S. Aiello, A. Belleni, G. Briani, C.Cecchi-Pestellini
P10.6 Transiting Extra-solar Planets: the photometric information
Alvaro Gimenez
P10.7 Influence of stellar X-ray luminosity evolution on
exoplanetary mass distributions
T. Penz, G. Micela, and H. Lammer
P10.8 Counter-rotating planetary systems
*S. Kotiranta, H. Lehto, S. Mikkola
P10.9 The role of the inclination of terrestrial planets on
the habitable zone's stability
*B. Funk, R. Schwarz, E. Pilat-Lohinger, A. Süli, R. Dvorak
P10.10 Giant planets as a dynamical shield - numerical studies
*T. Laakso, J. Rantala, M. Kaasalainen
